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Re: URI encoding URLs on the cmdline?

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2004-06-06 07:40:28 CEST

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 23:51, Jim Correia wrote:
> > How hard is it to explain "you can use any character you want in a URI
> > on the command line except for '%'"?

> The rule would have to be more strict than that - it would be an URI
> reserved character. Unless you are the author of the URL you can't say
> for certain whether the URI reserved char is being used for its
> reserved purpose, or needs to be escaped.

Please elaborate. I can't understand this argument, partially because
of an unclear antecedent in the first sentence ("it" in "it would be an
URI reserved character").

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